Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")
Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.
Care clings to wealth: the thirst for more Grows as our fortunes grow.
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.